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Designing the creative child : playthings and places in midcentury America
This study explores how a perception of children as imaginative and 'naturally' creative was constructed, disseminated, and consumed in the United States after World War II. It argues that educational toys, playgrounds, the smaller middle-class house, thousands of postwar schools, and chil...
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Format: | Online Resource Livre |
Langue: | English |
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Minneapolis
: University of Minnesota Press
, 2013
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Collection: | Architecture, landscape, and American culture series
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Accès en ligne: | http://kunst.proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/fid/upso-ebooks-art/dx.doi.org/10.5749/minnesota/9780816679607.001.0001 |
Documents similaires: | Erscheint auch als:
Designing the creative child |
Notes sur l'auteur: | Amy F. Ogata |
E-Book Packages: | Oxford University Press : Minnesota Scholarship Online / Art |
Résumé: | This study explores how a perception of children as imaginative and 'naturally' creative was constructed, disseminated, and consumed in the United States after World War II. It argues that educational toys, playgrounds, the smaller middle-class house, thousands of postwar schools, and children's museums, were designed to cultivate an ideal of imagination in a growing cohort of Baby Boom children. |
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Description matérielle: | Online-Ressource (1 online resource (xxii, 293 pages)) |
ISBN: | 9781452948119 |